EV questions

[Milotic_Fan]

I've been playing Pokemon for a lot years now, and I think I'm finally ready for EV training. I've read the EV guide on serebii.net, and it's all clear to me, except for a few questions:

To explain what I mean, I have to say I'm going to EV train my newly hatched Staryu lv. 5 Modest nature. I want to train it to lv. 50 and let it evolve then, to use it for the Battle Frontier. The EV's I want to give him are Speed and Special Attack, and the remaining EV's to Special Defense. Attacks have to become Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Surf and Recover.

Now the questions:

1. When my Staryu is at lv. 5, and I train it against 4 Zubat (for Speed) and 3 Spinda (for Special Attack), and the next Spinda (so that makes for again) makes it level up to lv. 6, does both Speed and Special Attack increase by 1, or only the one who got the 4 EV's first (Speed in this case)??

2. When I train Staryu against 4 Zubat it will increase the stat up for Speed by 1 the next time it levels up. When I train it against 8 Zubat, will it increase by 2 the next time it levels up? Or does is sort of 'stores up' the EV's that does remain after a level up, and the next level up it will increase by another won, even if I didn't defeated a Zubat?

(The next question is only applying if question 2 is answered by that both stats are increasing when you level up.)

3. Am I right that I only have to give it 180 EV's (4*45) at Speed and Special Attack? The reason I think that is because I train it only to lv. 50. If I train it against 252 Zubat, I will have to train it for at least (252/4) 63 levels to lv. 68. And since I'm not going to train it that far, isn't it a waste of EV's, which I can better spend at the remaining for Special Defense??

Hope you guys can help me with this!

(I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm sorry if there are any mistakes within my questions.)

 

[malcolm_n]

That was quite articulate.

Actually, the way that it works is each level has a cap in which you can reach with your pokemon in each stat. If you reach that cap by effort training, that particular stat will remain that way until you level again. The effort is still there, but it's not being used because it might unbalance the game if you could have all 63 EP at level 13 (not impossible). Any and all of your stats will raise to the cap their allowed at that particular level when you gain it and then the calculation will fill to the cap the next time as well.

To your 3rd question, you can level your pokemon to 50 and easily have all 252 effort in both of those stats. You'll be at the cap allowed at level 50 and if you ever go beyond, the game will remember and continue to reward you.

An interesting Note, you only receive 57 when you work to add 63 to your bad stat (hindering nature). Your beneficial nature, however, will add 69.
Does that help some?

 

[Dratini927]

Very nice, but we have a sticky thread about this which can answer a lot of your questions. Also, the main site has info on EV's as well. Any other questions you have should go into that thread.

http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=105223

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